General Services Administration acquired this from the Pennsylvania Railroad by trade and the Government owns this 85-acre tract and it has been designated as a site. Mr. ANDREWS. Designated by whom as a site for what? Mr. HARRISON. GSA has reserved it as a possible location for the Government Printing Office provided the Joint Committee on Printing approves. Mr. ANDREWs. What has the committee done? Mr. HARRISON. It has not acted on it. They have had several meetings on it and each time there was a request that final action be put off. Mr. ANDREWS. So you are right back where you were last year? Mr. HARRISON. Yes; except we have the tract. Mr. ANDREWS. You had it last year? OPPOSITION TO RELOCATION OF GPO Mr. HARRISON. No. GSA was in the process of acquiring it. There is another change. The civic associations and now the mayor have come out against moving the plant outside the District. In 1964 and 1965 when I wanted to build in the District nobody wanted it here. Now that we have found a site outside the District they want to keep it here. I have a letter from Mayor Washington asking me to meet with the Redevelopment Land Agency to see if we cannot utilize some of the surrounding ground of the Redevelopment Land Agency to expand the plant we have there now. I am telling him I cannot and that unless I am directed by Congress I do not propose to proceed here as any money spent to expand the present location would be a waste of money. Mr. ANDREWS. Of course, the final decision on location would be made by the Joint Committee of Printing? Mr. HARRISON. That is right. CONDITIONS AT PRESENT GPO LOCATION Mr. ANDREWS. What about conditions around your plant now? Mr. ANDREWS. What do you mean? Have any people been attacked? Mr. HARRISON. Yes. We are experiencing some serious difficulties. We have in our night force 700 women. I got a petition last week signed by 370 of my night employees asking that I do something to guarantee them safety when they go from the building to their cars. Mr. ANDREWs. You can't blame them. Mr. HARRISON. No. We have talked to the precinct captain and they are doing all they can. It is a serious problem. Mr. ANDREWS. And it is a problem not confined to your area. Conditions have gotten progressively worse in the city. Mr. HARRISON. We have no parking facilities for employees. They have to park wherever they can. The compositors' union, through the recreation and welfare association, leased part of a block two blocks from the plant that they are using for parking for association mem bers but that is to be vacated in the next few months. The old area at New Jersey and Massachusetts or G Street that used to be the Holmes Bakery has been used for parking but they are going to build on that. Mr. ANDREWS. Have any of your employees been hurt? Mr. HARRISON. Yes. One was beaten last week. We have had some yoked and some pocketbooks stolen. We don't know how many because the women working at night are afraid to report unless they are seriously hurt because their husbands would probably stop them from working at night. Mr. ANDREWS. And your plant is right within the shadow of the dome of the Capitol. Mr. HARRISON. Yes. Very recently a woman was crossing diagonally across H Street when she was dragged in an alley and raped. She screamed and there were people all around but that didn't stop it. Mr. ANDREWS. I read where a man went in an apartment and strapped the husband and stole $300 and raped his wife. I don't know what will happen in this country unless the courts start punishing criminals. The courts seem to take the attitude the law-abiding public be damned. PRESENT INADEQUATE GPO SPACE AND FACILITIES Briefly, what is your present specific situation in terms of your ability to perform the work that is given to you? I mean, aside from the economics or the efficiency with which you can do the work because of crowded conditions and so on, what is the present situation? Is this one of the reasons you are compelled to contract out more printing? Mr. HARRISON. Mr. Chairman, some people in the printing industry would like to have me say yes to that because they insist that if I get a new building I will not contract as much work. I don't think that is true. I am convinced by the time a new building is finished and we move in, which would be about 5 years, that the volume of printing will have grown to the extent that, at least, the same ratio would be in effect. It would mean simply that we could produce the printing at a more economical price than we are now. If we never produced a nickel's worth more in volume we could save $4-$5 million a year by streamlining the operation. Mr. ANDREWS. How much more do you think it would cost to handle it under present conditions? Mr. HARRISON. It would cost three to four times more to handle materials in our present location. Mr. ANDREWS. Describe the conditions under which you are operating at the present time. Mr. HARRISON. About half of the paper comes in at the third level of our warehouse. Mr. ANDREWS. You mean it comes in by rail car? Mr. HARRISON. Yes, about 10 cars a day. We off-load it. It is dropped to a subbasement, dragged through a tunnel and lifted as high as seven levels to get to our presses. The other half goes to Franconia, Va., and we have to truck it to Washington. That is just getting it in. Getting rid of the finished product is equally difficult and expensive as here again we do not have sufficient shipping space. We had a check made of the number of trucks going in and out of our building and it averages 400 trucks a day, 200 coming and 200 going. You would think the city would be glad to get rid of that situation. Mr. ANDREWS. How much does it cost over and above normal expense to handle it the way you do? Mr. HARRISON. Close to $4 million a year. Mr. ANDREWS. In other words, if you had another plant you could save $4 million a year? Mr. HARRISON. Yes, just in material handling alone. Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Langen. Mr. LANGEN. I think the subject has been pretty well covered. Getting back to the location of the plant, I think you stated you have two full shifts and a third that is not full? Mr. HARRISON. We stagger the third shift. Some compositors that handle the Congressional Record come in at 4:30 and work a normal shift. We work our people 8 hours and have to give them half an hour for lunch. You cannot squeeze three 811⁄2 hour tours into a 24-hour day. Mr. LANGEN. What times of the day are the shift changes? Mr. HARRISON. Our biggest shift movement is at 8 o'clock in the morning, 4:30 in the afternoon, and 11:30 at night. Mr. LANGEN. So you have a substantial movement of people about midnight? Mr. HARRISON. That is right. Those that come in at 4:30 leave about 1 o'clock and those that come in at 5:30 leave at 2, so we have a constant exit of people from 11:30 on. Mr. LANGEN. And they then have to find parking spaces for their cars? Is that within a radius of three or four blocks? Mr. HARRISON. It depends where they can find a parking space. Mr. LANGEN. What is the solution? 92-655-68-11 Mr. HARRISON. It has been suggested we build a $6 million parking garage. Mr. ANDREWS. Have they offered any effective police protection? Mr. HARRISON. About as much as the captain said they can afford. We have men and dogs who patrol the area. They know our shift hours but you cannot police every section. Mr. LANGEN. That is all. Mr. HARRISON. This is one of the things that a relocation would do for our people and I told this to Mayor Washington. It seems to me he could feel enough for these people to think that was a good thing. Mr. ANDREWS. For their personal protection? Mr. HARRISON. Yes. Mr. LANGEN. How many of your employees have their own cars? Mr. HARRISON. I think most of them do. When you get $5,000 a year you usually buy a car, and most of our employees earn more than that. Then this new plant would be adjacent to the rapid transit system. OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS 1 Selected resources as of June 30 are as follows: Unpaid undelivered orders, 1966, $100,000; 1967, $99,000; 1968, $215.000: 1969, $100,000. Mr. ANDREWS. Now we will take up the Office of the Superintendent of Documents. Mr. Buckley, we will have your general statement and then we will recess until tomorrow morning. GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS Mr. BUCKLEY. The funds that we are requesting to provide in fiscal year 1969 the services required of the Office of the Superintendent of Documents anticipate the continuation in that year of the steady and uncontrollable increases in all of our work programs. There have also been increases in all of the costs involved in providing the services for which our Office is responsible, and it is imperative that we undertake an early review of the pricing of publications offered for sale, in an effort to keep the prices consistent with the increases in costs. RISING SALES VOLUME Our sales for the current year are about 4 percent greater than for the comparable period last year and it now appears that the income for return to the Treasury this year will be approximately $7,500,000. For fiscal 1969, this income is expected to reach $8 million. We are requesting for 1969 a total appropriation of $8,112,200, an increase of $608,000 over 1968. MODERNIZATION PROGRAM The funds included in our 1968 appropriation for two modernization programs authorized by this committee are nonrecurring items that will not be required in 1969. One of these programs has been |